IF YOU GOWhat: Nightfall concert series featuring Lao Tizer.When: 8 p.m. today; Milele Roots opens at 7 p.m.Where: Miller Plaza, corner of M.L. King Boulevard, Market and Cherry streets.Admission: Free.Phone: 265-0771.Venue website: www.nightfallchattanooga.com
If music is the global language, then world-fusion jazz pianist Lao Tizer is something of a jazz polyglot.
In the last several years, Tizer, a Boulder, Colo., native and Los Angeles transplant, has taken his ensemble of experienced, stylistically diverse players around the world, from the Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia, to the Dubai Jazz Festival and the Festival International Providencia Jazz in Santiago, Chile.
Everywhere the band plays, the blend of elements of world musical styles with improvisation-centric jazz transcends cultural barriers, Tizer said during a recent phone interview while staying in New York City.
“I do think that one great thing about jazz and instrumental or improvised music is that anybody can connect to it if they’re open to it,” he said. “